It’s the Web’s 29th Anniversary! – A Brief History

March 15, 2014 – the web’s 29th anniversary. Do you know how it all started? This eye candy infographic designed by InfoGraphic Design Team will tell you about the most important milestones in the domain name’s history. Have you already heard that in 2014 more than 100 new generic top-level domains had been added, like .music, . cars, .apple or .hyundai. We suggest there should be one for .infographic!

First, the infographic provides the definition for domain name. In the begining, only 6 domain names were registered in the world. Today, there are more than 260 million domain names registered globally.

The infographic below illustrates some of the most influential and interesting moments in the history of domain names.